Wednesday 28 December 2016

Day Two

In the camp, all changed from their armor into their regular clothes. All were talking about Bhishma having killed ten thousand soldiers. Yudhistira asked how Bhishma could be controlled. Krishna said make the son of Virata the commander. Arjuna will kill the Kaurava soldiers.
Krishna called Virata and said Make your son Sankha the commander of the Pandava army.
Virata was happy to hear this. He called Sankha and gave him the news. Sankha said he would gladly perform the duties but he did not have an able charioteer. Krishna asked Satyaki to become the charioteer of Sankha.

When dawn broke, armies marched forward. Seeing Sankha, Bhishma blew his conch shell. Sankha showered arrows on Bhishma who cut off the arrows and wounded Sankha. Sankha fainted and Satyaki carried the chariot away.
Arjuna killed many Kaurava soldiers. Seeing this, Duryodhana decided to face Arjuna but could not stand for long and had to flee. Seeing Arjuna kill the soldiers, Bhishma came to attack Arjuna. The two, equal in might, began showering arrows at each other.
Bhima also began attacking and killing the Kaurava soldiers. Seeing this, Karna decided to attack Bhima.
Seeing Salya, Uttar attacked him. Salya was furious seeing Uttar's skills, and with a weapon killed Uttar. Seeing his son fall, Virata attacked Salya.
Ghatotkacha and Ambulish were fighting.
Sankha attacked the Kaurava soldiers. Drona seeing him came to face Sankha. Drona showered ten arrows at Sankha, who cut those off. Sankha then cut off Drona's bow. When Drona tried to take another bow, Sankha cut that off too. Drona furious picked up a weapon of Brahma.
Satyaki asked Sankha to take refuge under Arjuna. Sankha decided to face Drona and not flee.
Satyaki decided to turn the chariot and seeing that Sankha decided to jump off and face the weapon. He tried cutting that off but was unable to. The weapon came and killed Sankha.

The second day of the battle came to an end. 

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